Weekly graphic. [volume] (Kirksville, Adair Co., Missouri) 1880-1949, 1887-09-23

Oldham.
Mr.. and Mrs. J. W. MITTEN OF
Brashear were in Kirksville,
Saturday.
WALTER OTTo will leave next
Monday for a mouths visit at Ma
son, Ills.
Mr.. G. B. McCLANAHAN of
Willard made the GRAPHIC Office a
call Monday morning.
Miss JULIA Huston of LaPlata,
was the guest of Miss Lizzie
Davis last week.
HERBERT WESTERN and sister,
of Polk township, were in Kinks
vile Wednesday.
Mrs. E. o. GATES returned
Wednesday evening from a six
weeks visit at Carthage and Har-
rlsonvllle.
LEWIS MABIs of Greentop,
dropped in to see US Monday
morning and deposited for fifty-two
GRAPHICs.
Miss ANNA MARKEY. of Green
castle, spent Tuesday in Kinks
vile, returning home in the even
ing.
Mrs. HARRY TUMMoND left
Tuesday morning for Iroquois,
Oak, where she will spend a
month visiting friends.
Mr.. A. OsENBAUGH, foreman in
the Office of the Monticello Jour
nal was visiting his parents in
this place from Monday to yester-
day.
Mrs. DIR. EGGLEsToN, who has
been visiting relatives in this
place and Edna for several weeks,
left for her home, Olathe, Kans.,
Tuesday morning.
Geo. n. Welman, of Susque-
hannah Co., Pa, and Mrs. r. G.
Clark, Elmira n. Y, are visiting
their Nephew, Joe Ell. Nichols,
also his mother from Quincy.
Mrs. CHRIssIE MEEKs, who has
been on her farm in Dakota dur
ing the summer, returned last
Saturday. She was accompanied
by Miss Phige. Foncanon, who
spent the summer with her.
Miss JUN1A PORTER, of Denver,
Colo, who has spent the summer
in this place with the family of
her uncle, J. l.. Porter, left fol
her home Thursday morning of
last week.
G. w. DENNIsToN, of Willard,
comes to the front with the larg-
est yield of oats yet reported.
Sixty-three bushels per acre is the
showing he makes, and we think
will hardly be beaten in the coun-
ty this season.
William McFetridge, Of Nov
niger, was in town Wednesday.
He brought, in a load of wheat
which he sold at 55 cents per bush
ell. He said it was the lowest that
he had ever sold wheat.
DR.. SHIRLEY passed through
town Wednesday on his return
from Brashear, where he had been
to visit his brother-in-law DR..
Hopkins, who is very i'll. He re-
ports that DR.. Hopkins is not i'm
proving.
J. o. Gooch got in from trip
through Kansas, Monday evening.
He says there are whole counties
in Kansas that, if every ear OF
corn was gathered and shelled a
plug hat would hold all of it.
W. n. Fuller returned Wednes-
day from trip to Caldwell coun-
| ty, where he had been visiting
Rev. W. A. Presson. He reports
good corn and wheat crops in that
county and fair crop of peaches.
Rev. Presson is doing good work
on Blae k-oak circuit and all his
charges are prosperous.
Mrs. Elizabeth White, and Mrs.
Amanda Tyler and son, Master
Chester, of Fountain Green Ills,
| are visiting relatives in Kirksville
| and vicinity. Accompanied by
Mrs. J. V. Nelson of Bullion, Mrs.
J. r. Shields of Sperry and L. R.
Williams of this place, they made
tie GRAPHIC Office a call Tuesday
afternoon.
Fl. C. Sohn, assessor, has com.
pleted the assessment of Polk
Morrow, Nineveh, Liberty, Wal
nut and Pettis townships and
western Benton. He reports
farmers prosperous, and returns
i llal=s e.. Lii lonnisab lo onfor.